Outdoors · Williamstown

Williamstown, NY parks, trails & bike paths

About 17% of Williamstown is conserved land, roughly 4,343 acres. There are about 14 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Happy Valley WMA (4.3 mi) and Orton Hollow State Forest (0.5 mi).

Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Williamstown, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.

At a glance

Williamstown outdoors

Conserved land
17%
4,343 of 24,904 acres
Trails
14 mi
0.4 mi per sq mi · 5 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
4
2,853 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.0 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.0 mi off-road paths

Conserved land is a share of the whole town area. Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.

Map

Conserved land, trails & bike routes

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Tap a number or a place below to zoom in© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Places to walk

Parks & preserves with trails

Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
1

Happy Valley Wildlife Management Area

Nature preserve
1,671 acres4.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
2

Orton Hollow State Forest

Nature preserve
327 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
3

Kasoag State Forest

Nature preserve
1,041 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
4

O'Hara State Forest

Managed by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
7 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
Who protects the land

4,343 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State conservation
3,072 ac
County
1,304 ac
Town or city
6 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. Public access isn't recorded for 2 of 10 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.

Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
  • Off-road bike paths0.0 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Baseball4

Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.

Next door

Williamstown and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Williamstown17.4%13.9 mi4
Amboy11.1%3.9 mi5
Albion25.6%16.2 mi4
Orwell22.6%15.6 mi7
Redfield28.7%44.8 mi9
Florence34.4%12.2 mi10
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Williamstown's trails yet. Muddy, icy, a bridge out, where to park: a quick post helps the next person.

Sources: trails, parks, preserves, courts and bike lanes © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), map data as of 2026-09-28. Conserved land: USGS Gap Analysis Project, Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US). Measured against the Census town boundary.

How we measure"Trails" are OpenStreetMap paths, bridleways, public tracks and unpaved footways, plus footways inside a park or preserve or on a named trail route. Sidewalks are left out. Areas are counted on a 25.2-meter grid, so overlapping parcels count once. "Conserved" includes conservation easements, which protect land from development but are usually private property. Trailheads are the nearest marked trailhead, public parking lot or information board within about 150 meters of a preserve. Dog rules come from OpenStreetMap when someone has tagged them; otherwise we show what's typical for the land manager, or say the rules aren't recorded.

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